''Tekawennake'' or the ''Tekawennake News'' is a discontinued weekly community
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sport ...
, published in
Ohsweken
Ohsweken () is a dispersed rural community located within the Six Nations of the Grand River, in the County of Brant, Ontario, Canada. Approximately 300 of the 2,700 homes on the reserve are in Ohsweken, and it is the site of the reserve governm ...
,
Ontario
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to serve the region's
Six Nations and
Mississauga First Nations
First Nations or first peoples may refer to:
* Indigenous peoples, for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area.
Indigenous groups
*First Nations is commonly used to describe some Indigenous groups including:
** First Nat ...
. The paper billed itself as Canada's oldest weekly that served First Nations.
The paper started publication in 1967 with only 50 copies printed and folded in 2013.
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See also
* Turtle Island News
''Turtle Island News'' is a weekly community newspaper, published in Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada. The ''Turtle Island News'' also covers First Nation and aboriginal issues across North America.
The ''Turtle Island News'' has a circulation of 20,000 ...
* Two Row Times
The Two Row Times, an Onkwehon:we ( Onkwehonwe) flagship publication of Garlow Media,Two Row Times Business Report (September 20, 2013) is a free weekly news publication based in Hagersville, Ontario, Canada, and focusing distribution on the Six ...
References
External links
Official site
Archived issues at Six Nations Public Library
Weekly newspapers published in Ontario
Publications with year of establishment missing
First Nations newspapers
Mississaugas
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